Alice was born in 1843 and was the third child of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert. Her name was chosen because Lord Melbourne, the former prime minister, had expressed to Queen Victoria that it was his favourite name. As a child, Alice was raised with her eight siblings under the watch of a series of [read more]
The Palace of Holyroodhouse is commonly referred to as Holyrood Palace. It lies at the opposite end of the Royal Mile which connects to Edinburgh Castle. It is still an official residence and The Queen uses it for one week during the summer when she carries out engagements in the area. The current palace was [read more]
Letters from Diana, Princess of Wales, to an AIDS victim, have surfaced in the United Kingdom and these rare documents will be auctioned by Henry Aldridge & Son on 24 February. The three letters from Diana, Princess of Wales and her lady-in-waiting were sent to Margaret Bendon, a friend of AIDS victim Vincent Hickey, who [read more]
Written by Paridhi Sinha. In the volcanic plateau of Malwa in central India, lies an ancient city named Mandu. Today, it is a sleepy small town of the Indian province of Madhya Pradesh but the very air of the place, even today, is reminiscent of the story it had witnessed some five centuries earlier. The [read more]
Read part one here. The civil war that began with the death of King Andrew III of Hungary and Croatia ended two decades later with the succession of the grandson of Mary of Hungary, the sister of King Ladislaus IV of Hungary. He became King Charles I of Hungary. The amount of times he married is [read more]
From 1130, the Italian island of Sicily was a kingdom. What most don’t know, it was a county before it became a kingdom. The island was conquered by the Normans in 1071, and Roger de Hauteville, a minor Norman noble became Count Roger I of Sicily. He married three times, and it was his third [read more]
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